Saint Anna di Stazzema, is not only a place in the tuscanian emilian appennin, it's a memory of an horrible tragedy we'll know in all Italy and in all the history books.
Saint Anna in the 1900 was a little populous village situated in the mountains, unfortunately in these mountains during the second world War it was the scenary of a tragedy,no, not a tragedy, a massacre.
The place is still nice but there is no more people, only few little houses, a bar and a museum, it's easy to go there by car, here the air it's fresh and the nature so beautiful and green that it's hard to imagine it as one of the darkest place in our history.
In this village happened a gernan war crime one of the worst in Italy.
It was a kind of little war against the Italian resistance group, the 12 of August 1944 the waffen ss soldiers as a punishment for the resistence killed almost 600 people, men, women, kids, old people, everyone they found on their steet or inside the houses.
They did many act of cruel against children and pregnant women, they don't only kill with a gun but they also tortured many people, it was a pure act of cruelty.
In the village now there is a monument for all the victims with their names and ages write on it, the youngest victim was only 20 days old. You can visit the monument after a long walk in the wood with some religious sculptures.
It's almost one hour walk in these dark wood, really intense.
After the massacre the bodies and the village was burned down, they want to destroy this poor innocent village. There was only few children survived because their runned trough some woods.
The monument is really big and impressive, I almost cry when I see it, I feel it like really a horrible part of our history and I feel the pain of all my people during these times.
